Senior Software Engineer

TN United Kingdom; Oldham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Software Engineer, where you'll play a pivotal role in developing enterprise-level software solutions. This position offers a unique opportunity to work on a hybrid model, balancing time between the office and remote work. You'll contribute to an agile team focused on delivering high-quality code while mentoring junior developers and championing best practices. The role requires expertise in modern front-end frameworks like React, alongside strong back-end skills in C# and ASP.NET. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

3 additional days for Christmas

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Expertise in front-end programming with React, Vue, and Angular.
• Strong C# skills and experience with ASP.NET and REST APIs.

Responsibilities

• Develop enterprise-quality software in an agile environment.
• Conduct code reviews and mentor junior developers.
• Produce technical documentation to support the software lifecycle.

Skills

React

Vue

Angular

C#

ASP.NET

REST APIs

MS SQL Server

T-SQL

Agile Methodologies

Object-Oriented Development

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

NuGet

NPM

Job description

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Our industry-leading team provide business solutions across the entire transport industry.

With interfaces into key industry suppliers (including electronic ticket machine providers, scheduling packages, fuel systems and cash machines) our operational software provides a single interface through which operators of all sizes can consolidate their data to drive efficiencies and informed business decisions.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you are a core member of our development team delivering enterprise-quality software supporting local, national and international customers across a range of solutions.

We strive to continuously improve our development and DevOps methodologies and tools supported by strong Agile principles, and we expect you to contribute and recommend enhancements to our practices, processes, and tooling. Your role is a full-stack one, requiring both front and back-end expertise with a deep understanding of modern software architectures and development techniques.

This is a full-time role of 37.5 hours per week with core hours of 9:30am – 4.00pm Monday to Friday. This position offers a hybrid working model which includes working from our offices in Sheffield, Bromsgrove (Birmingham) or Oldham (Manchester) one day every two weeks.

Purpose of the role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will contribute to the implementation of our software solutions through the production of high-quality code. You will be involved in crucial stages of the development lifecycle throughout the build and deployment of our products and provide support both during and post-deployment. You will bring coding expertise to the team, working closely with others to produce quality code that is efficient, maintainable and testable.

You will work with the team to deliver designs and functionality, including prototyping, researching and trialing new technologies as well as improving and maintaining existing solutions. You will contribute to planning activities whilst aligning your workload to team delivery timescales.

Responsibilities

• Develop the next generation of our software using the latest web technologies with standard design patterns and practices, all in an agile environment
• Architect and write clean, documented, testable and scalable code adding new functionality to our solutions, as well as improving our existing code-base
• Perform code reviews, ensuring that the team delivers reliable and secure software
• Learn, maintain, and improve our existing toolset and infrastructure, wherever applicable
• Champion best practice, clean code, patterns, practices and methodologies
• Act as a point of escalation and troubleshooting within the development team, shaping the team ethos and mentoring junior developers
• Delivery of enterprise-quality, web-based, API-driven solutions
• Making a key contribution to Scrum events; Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Reviews, Backlog Refinement workshops, and Sprint Retrospectives
• Develop new features across and maintain all versions of our software
• Conducting and participating in code and architecture reviews, supporting continuous learning and knowledge sharing across the team
• Supporting our colleagues in the Deployment, Support and Infrastructure teams; ensuring that our software meets the required standards for privacy, security, compliance, and regulation
• Production of technical documentation, wikis, and release notes, where required, to support all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle

Requirements

Key skills and experience

• Expert front-end programming skills using modern libraries and frameworks, especially React, Vue, and Angular
• Strong C# programming skills with demonstrable expert-level knowledge of the .NET Framework
• Accomplished in developing websites and web applications using ASP.NET (MVC, Web API)
• Able to deliver low-latency web services and APIs with a solid understanding of the REST architectural style
• Knowledge of designing, building, and consuming APIs with OpenAPI (Swagger)
• Very proficient in database development on MS SQL Server with extensive knowledge of T-SQL and relational data modelling
• Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented development
• Extensive knowledge of software design patterns, SOLID principles and advanced-level engineering approaches, such as DI/IoC, TDD, etc.
• Experience working with source control, automated build, deployment tools and package managers (Azure DevOps, Git, NuGet, NPM)
• Able to work in a fast-paced, delivery-focused, agile environment
• Excellent spoken and written English communication skills; able to present and articulate proposals, estimates and solutions clearly and succinctly
• Able to assume end-to-end ownership of technical solutions
• Have a high level of maturity; able to give and receive constructive feedback, particularly during code and architecture reviews
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and an additional 3 days for Christmas